🇵🇹 Portuguese

sinais

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

os sinais

signals

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sinais
/us siˈnajs/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say sinais in Portuguese?

IPA
/us siˈnajs/

How do you pronounce sinais in Portuguese?

sinais is pronounced /us siˈnajs/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O sinal vermelho está quebrado e precisa ser consertado urgentemente.

The red signal is broken and needs to be fixed urgently.

Aquele sinal luminoso antigo foi substituído por um novo modelo mais moderno.

That old luminous signal was replaced by a new, more modern model.

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Why is it masculine?

Sinais is masculine because it derives from Latin "signāle" (neuter), but when adopted into Portuguese, neuter Latin nouns typically became masculine in the Romance languages, following the general phonetic loss of the neuter gender system. The word's masculine form "o sinal" reflects this inherited gender assignment from the historical evolution of Latin into Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for signals?

The Portuguese word for signals is os sinais — masculine.

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